Crossing Michmash Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Observe in the text that the garrison of Philistines is not out there to conquer you, but a register of your own thoughts pressing toward the narrow way you would venture through. Michmash represents a threshold in your consciousness; the passage is the route your awareness must occupy to step into a new state. The movement of the enemy shows how your old self seeks to block a crossing when a new alignment with your I AM is called forth. In Neville's language, the outer drama is the inner weather: fear, doubt, and habit rising to defend a familiar self. Yet your true agent—the I AM—remains intimate, unshakable. The moment you privately assume the end, imagine yourself already beyond the pass, you are no longer the one chased; you are the one crossing. The garrison loses its power as you embody the truth that imagination creates reality. By insisting upon the scene as accomplished, you move the inner stream, and the external arrangement (the garrison's march) subtly rearranges itself around your lifted consciousness.